CIA operations
American intelligence activities
CIA operations are covert activities conducted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, typically involving espionage, intelligence gathering, or clandestine intervention in foreign affairs.
The term covers everything from surveillance and recruiting informants to sabotage and regime change: The failed Bay of Pigs invasion was one of the agency's most notorious CIA operations.
In casual use, the phrase suggests secrecy, intrigue, and plausible deniability.
- double agentsSpies betraying their employers
- deep coverProlonged covert infiltration
- espionageCovert intelligence gathering
- hackingInfiltrating protected digital systems
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
sabotage · plausible deniability · propaganda · reconnaissance · rendition · cryptography · black ops · assassination plots · regime change · dead drops · safe house · psychological profiling · wiretapping · satellite imagery · interrogation methods · extraction team · secure communications · infiltration
- Cold War EraSoviet Union, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis, Iron Curtain, Warsaw Pact
- Eisenhower EraDwight Eisenhower, Ike, Richard Nixon, Nixon, farewell address
- Cold War AfricaAngola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Rhodesia
- warfarebattle, combat, attack, war, armed conflict
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
- diplomacyembassy, ambassador, ambassadors, treaty, treaties
CIA operationspress conferences
Formal journalist gatherings
open government · public affairs · public hearings · congressional testimony · congressional hearings
CIA operationsdiplomatic engagement
Official contact between governments
soft power · foreign aid · trade agreements · international cooperation · UN peacekeeping
operations, operation, operate, operated, operates, operating, operative, operatives, operator